Guess Kisenosato's Aite (Myogiryu II) - May 2012

[shimodahito]

day 14 - kyokutenho

[Oshirokita]

Day 14 Wakakoyu

[Andonishiki]

day 14 - gagamaru

[Holleshoryu]

day 14 gagamaru

[kuroimori]

Alright, I'll try to hit a lucky punch by picking

Aran for Day 14

[Chisaiyama]

Day 14: Toyohibiki

[Jejima]

Day 14 - Homasho

[Yaochoyama]

Bad as my own performance has been, it's still been refreshing to see a variety of picks each day rather than the almost daily bandwagons of recent memory.

Day 14 - Gagamaru

[Asashosakari]

Day 14:

Today's haul of shukun-sho bonus points is collected by Oshirokita as the only one to pick Wakakoyu as the correct Day 14 opponent. Meanwhile, the yusho has been decided.

1 Homasho

2 Aran

3 Gagamaru

1 Toyohibiki

1 Wakakoyu

2 Aoiyama

3 Kyokutenho

Yaochoyama (4-9-1) Y1 Asashosakari (9-5)

Profomisakari (4-10) O1

Kuroimori (5-8-1) S1 Andonishiki (7-7)

Jakusotsu (4-10) S2 Jejima (6-8)

Oshirokita (4-8-2) K1 Holleshoryu (4-9-1)

Shimodahito (3-11) M1 XiaoTan (5-9)

Anjoboshi (0-0-14) M2 Chisaiyama (3-11)

Gernobono (0-0-14) M3 Kotoviki (3-6-5)

ScreechingOwl (0-0-14) M4

Myogiryu's aites: 1. O3E Kotooshu, 2. O3W Kakuryu, 3. O1W Baruto, 4. YE Hakuho, 5. O2E Kisenosato, 6. O1E Harumafuji, 7. O2W Kotoshogiku, 8. M4E Tochiozan, 9. M5E Okinoumi, 10. SE Toyonoshima, 11. KW Aminishiki, 12. M3W Takekaze, 13. M1W Takayasu, 14. M6E Wakakoyu

Kanto-sho race:

2+ Asashosakari

3+ Andonishiki

3+ Kuroimori

3+ Profomisakari

3+ Yaochoyama

Asashosakari is guaranteed to at least co-win the prize; if he loses tomorrow, any pursuer who gets his pick right will also win the kanto-sho.

Edited May 19, 2012 by Asashosakari

[XiaoTan]

Kyokutenho for day 15

[Jakusotsu]

I'm sure I'll regret this, but here goes nothing:

Day 15 - Gagamaru

[Oshirokita]

Day 15 Kyokutenho

[Asashosakari]

My seat-of-my-pants sanyaku outline has Tenho and Aoiyama busy elsewhere, so here's a real wild-ass guess since nothing's on the line anyway: Day 15 Tochinoshin.

[Kotoviki]

Just to reconfirm my pick is still Gagamaru for day 15

[Andonishiki]

day 15: aran

[Andonishiki]

change day 15: gagamaru (hands of Russian vodka !!!)

[Chisaiyama]

Day 15: Aoiyama

[Holleshoryu]

day 15 gagamaru

[kuroimori]

I pick up the free Aran slot for Myogiryu's final aite

[Yaochoyama]

I'm on travel the second week which is going to make things a little difficult, but I'll be participating in the interest of not giving up the Y-E position without a fight.

Guess it didn't turn out to be much of a fight. Well congratulations to Asashosakari on becoming the top ranker.

Day 15 - Aran

[Jejima]

Day 15 - Aoiyama.....

It all depends which route the torikumi's take. I wouldn't be too surprised if they were to delay the day 15 senshuraku until after *all* results are in day 14 - I am fairly sure that has happened at least once in the past decade.

[shimodahito]

15 gagamaru

[Asashosakari]

Senshuraku:

The yusho winner picks up his 10th win with another solo prediction as Myogiryu closes out his basho facing Tochinoshin.

2 Aran

1 Takayasu

5 Gagamaru

2 Aoiyama

2 Kyokutenho

1 Tochinoshin

Yaochoyama (4-10-1) Y1 Asashosakari (10-5)

Profomisakari (4-11) O1

Kuroimori (5-9-1) S1 Andonishiki (7-8)

Jakusotsu (4-11) S2 Jejima (6-9)

Oshirokita (4-9-2) K1 Holleshoryu (4-10-1)

Shimodahito (3-12) M1 XiaoTan (5-10)

Anjoboshi (0-0-15) M2 Chisaiyama (3-12)

Gernobono (0-0-15) M3 Kotoviki (3-7-5)

ScreechingOwl (0-0-15) M4

Myogiryu's aites: 1. O3E Kotooshu, 2. O3W Kakuryu, 3. O1W Baruto, 4. YE Hakuho, 5. O2E Kisenosato, 6. O1E Harumafuji, 7. O2W Kotoshogiku, 8. M4E Tochiozan, 9. M5E Okinoumi, 10. SE Toyonoshima, 11. KW Aminishiki, 12. M3W Takekaze, 13. M1W Takayasu, 14. M6E Wakakoyu, 14. M8E Tochinoshin

[Asashosakari]

Sansho awards in summary:

Starting off with the shukun-sho, awarded for the most consecutive correct picks. Only four players cleared the eligibility threshold of at least 3 correct picks in a row in this difficult basho - XiaoTan (2-4) had a streak of 3 days, and Asashosakari (9-12) and Jejima (1-4) managed to put 4 days together, but the prize goes to Andonishiki (2-7) for his impressive 6-day streak.

Next up, the kanto-sho which goes to the player with the shortest long streak of incorrect predictions. Again only a handful of players managed to remain eligible for the prize by having no streak longer than 4 days - Andonishiki, Kuroimori, Profomisakari, Shimodahito and Yaochoyama all had 4-day streaks on days 12-15 (Shimodahito additionally on days 1-4), trailing prize winner Asashosakari whose longest streak came in back-to-back wrong predictions on days 13 and 14.

And lastly, the gino-sho for which points are awarded on the following schedule:

3 points if you're the only win to make the correct pick

2 points if you're one of two to make the correct pick

1 point if you're one of three to make the correct pick

Lots and lots of points were handed out this basho - possibly the most ever? In the end, Asashosakari wins a second special prize by amassing 13 points, scoring on 6 different days.

[Asashosakari]

For posterity the full list of gino-sho scorers in this potentially historic basho:

13 Asashosakari (2x3, 3x2, 1x1)

3 Jejima (1x2, 1x1)

3 Oshirokita

2 Andonishiki (2x1)

2 Holleshoryu

2 Jakusotsu

2 Kuroimori

2 Yaochoyama

1 Shimodahito

1 XiaoTan

Wouldn't be surprised if this is a record both for total points (31), number of players appearing on the list (10 out of 13), and days with points scored (9 different days).

Edited May 19, 2012 by Asashosakari